What's your favourite UK staycation location?

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Rocinante23@reddit

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A "staycation" is when you stay at home or local during leave from work etc..

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chukkysh@reddit

It needs to be purged from the English language. British people can legitimately holiday in Britain.

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thebrowncanary@reddit

Exactly, there's something inherently classist and snobbish about using the word staycation to desribe a holiday in the UK.

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Harrry-Otter@reddit

Holidaying in the U.K. is a lot more expensive than about though. My colleague booked a week in Tenerife for less than I just paid for a weekend in a pub.

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thebrowncanary@reddit

Holidaying in the U.K. is a lot more expensive than abroad though

This is just as bad. "The UK", in this sentence is the parts of the UK you would deem acceptable for you to be seen in.

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Harrry-Otter@reddit

You mean, the places people generally want to visit? Yes you probably can book a night an a travel tavern on the side of the A50, but unsurprisingly most people wouldn’t fancy that as a holiday.

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thebrowncanary@reddit

You full well know what I mean. Countless locations, along the entire coast of the UK could likely be more affordable than your Tenerife holiday but you think it's beneath you.

Said in another comment it's remarklably middle class to call a domestic holiday a staycation. Working class and upper have no hang ups about holidaying domestically, it's normal.

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I'd be surprised tbh, even rather tatty caravan sites with nothing provided can be crazy expensive in school holidays. Then presumably there are even cheaper places in Tenerife if you go outside the tourist hotspots too. If you have any examples though I'd be interested to hear them.

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Harrry-Otter@reddit

I mean there’s a few reasons I personally don’t really holiday in the UK but that’s a bit beside the point.

It’s the fact that to get a roughly equivalent holiday in the U.K. to one you might find in Greece or Spain, you generally have to pay a lot more.

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thebrowncanary@reddit

It’s the fact that to get a roughly equivalent holiday in the U.K. to one you might find in Greece or Spain

Strange sentence. How could they possibly be equivalent? It's everyone's perogative to holiday where they please. However, inventing some special term for a domestic holiday implies some kind of lesser status to a foreign one.

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Harrry-Otter@reddit

A city break. A beach resort holiday. A hiking holiday. They can be fairly similar even if they’re in different countries. My point was that the U.K. option is usually more expensive unless you’re comparing a 5* hotel in Mykonos with a cheap hotel in some run down British coastal town.

I didn’t invent the term “staycation”. I just didn’t get the class angle you added when as I say, “staycations” are usually more expensive.

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48thgenerationroman@reddit

Can I take my big plate into the breakfast buffet?

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chukkysh@reddit

I mostly agree, but if I found one that was equidistant between London and Norwich, it would be a perfect spot for a city break.

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OurSeepyD@reddit

I think it's fine and you're reading into it too much. I grew up never going abroad, didn't fly anywhere until I was 16 and paid for myself, and I just interpret the meaning as "holiday in the UK".

They have to clarify they mean UK in this context, and if they said "holiday in the UK" someone could easily say "oh because holidays by default are abroad??".

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thebrowncanary@reddit

It is very middle class. I don't think the working class nor upper class would use the term as going on a domestic holiday is a lot more normalised.

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OurSeepyD@reddit

I have family that would consider themselves working class (dads side) and family that would consider themselves middle class (mums side).

The working class side go abroad just as often and I would actually expect them to say "staycation". It's an Americanism, and it just depends on how exposed you are to American media imo.

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48thgenerationroman@reddit

It's simpler than that. It's just wrong

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Ok-Nobody6221@reddit

I know, I hate when people use it for a holiday in the UK. It makes it sound cheap as if it's not a proper holiday if you don't go abroad. Holidaying in the UK is usually more expensive than a lot of Europe. I often prefer it to going abroad

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Haunting_Hour_4556@reddit

I was taught it was the other way round, you 'stay' in the UK. It wasn't until years later that I heard people say it was when you remain at home.

But your way makes more sense, we don't see people in Cleveland saying "I'm going on a staycation to Miami". They do just look at it as a holiday.

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48thgenerationroman@reddit

Maybe people from Cleveland going to Middlesbrough or Staithes would count. But Miami? No.

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Rocinante23@reddit

As long as there's no overnight stays anywhere it's a "staycation"

That's how I've understood it anyway

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HugeElephantEars@reddit

That was the joke at primary school:

"Where are you going for your holidays?"

"I'm going to Romania!"

"Geddit? Remain here…"

And then we'd all laugh uproariously at how clever and punny we were. Cringe.

Anyway, OP needs a dictionary they're talking about a holiday.

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ABritishCynic@reddit

Going on holibobs.

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chukkysh@reddit

That's just it though. There will be news stories on the BBC saying something like "more people in the UK are choosing staycations this year" when they mean people from Manchester going to Cornwall. It's as though going abroad is the default, and anything else isn't a "proper" holiday, even though we have a beautiful island full of coastal havens, dramatic mountain ranges, exciting cities and Widnes.

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elbapo@reddit

Upvoting and posting the exact same comment just because...the clue is in the name

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DamoclesBDA@reddit

That's always been my understanding but apparently domestic holidays are now also called staycations, when they clearly aren't.

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pickindim_kmet@reddit

Lots of top suggestions but my favourite when young was Eyemouth in the borders. It's still a nice little village today, plenty of walks around.

Accessible by a train to Berwick and a short bus from the station to Eyemouth.

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Disgruntled__Goat@reddit

Yadda yadda staycation etc.

Anyway the Lake District is beautiful.

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AcceptableCustomer89@reddit

Redditors are so boringly predictable

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Mr_Bumcrest@reddit

My house. That's what a staycation is, despite what advertisers want you to think

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colin_staples@reddit

Staycation?

Your own home.

Thats the location of a staycation

ALWAYS

A staycation is defined as : taking time off work but staying at home, sleeping in your own bed

If you sleep in any other bed, it's a holiday. That includes at a relative's house, in a tent or a camper van, or in a hotel. Those are holidays in the UK

(Ok, not if you sleep in a hospital bed or a jail cell)

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Ajay-1992@reddit

Sigh. You mean a "holiday", as opposed to a "holiday abroad".

A staycation means something different.

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mightytonto@reddit

The long mynd and stiperstones are awesome. Bonus points for Brow farm campsite and the Bridges pub, both are excellent

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Lion-Resident@reddit

I don't know how old or young the commenters are, but staycation does NOT mean staying at home. It means staying in the UK. You are all wrong and also wrong to insult OP. Go back to school.

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jolie_j@reddit

Nope, a staycation was originally coined as a way to enjoy the area surrounding your home. You stay in place and have a “vacation” /holiday. Somewhere along the way people started using it to mean staying in the same country, but that always has been a holiday.

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jrw1982@reddit

ie, daytrips

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Disgruntled__Goat@reddit

No, staying elsewhere in the UK is called a holiday (or vacation if you want to be American). Why would the word staycation need to be invented for that when we have 2 words already, one of which is the basis for staycation?

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vientianna@reddit

Luckily I am not a pedant.

Isle of Arran. Beaches, hill walking, castles, cafes. It’s beautiful

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necrobrit@reddit

Obligatory telling off for not knowing what staycation means.

Anywhere (ok almost anywhere, maybe not slough) on the canal network. Hire a boat and your hotel is in a new bit of beautiful countryside every day.

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jolie_j@reddit

My favourite place for a staycation is the area surrounding my home.

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elbapo@reddit

My house because that is the definition of stay cation the clue being in the name

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Telchara@reddit

Clyde Valley in South Lanarkshire. Some gorgeous countryside for dog walks- Falls of Clyde is one of my faves. Get a banging cream tea at a garden centre. Near Glasgow if you want some culchur.

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Party_Advantage_3733@reddit

Lake District; the bus system is surprisingly good. Or Tynemouth way (somewhere coastal on the Newcastle metro system).

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Few_House_5201@reddit

My house. That’s the only place which is actually a staycation.

If you mean where is a good place in the UK to have a holiday then Isle of Wight or Anglesey are lovely with lots to see and do.

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YorkshireMan7273@reddit

Northumberland is wonderful. Brilliant beaches,great scenery and interesting towns and villages.

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Dangerous_Bed2566@reddit

A staycation means staying at home. If you are going away that is not a 'staycation"

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JoeyJoJoeJr_Shabadoo@reddit

Peak District. Isn't full of tourist traps like the Peaks and Cotswolds are. Easy train to Sheffield/Derby then another quick one to Buxton or Edale or the likes.

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Then_Bodybuilder3967@reddit

Ignore the haters OP. The term "staycation" has two meanings now since the pandemic.

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avemango@reddit

Mid wales, usually stay in or near Dolgellau and go to Barmouth and Aberdyfi beaches which are dog friendly!

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Existing_Doughnut985@reddit

Any barn conversion with a hot tub. Don’t care where it is, barn conversions are always quiet and I love getting in the hot tub at 5am and watching/listening to the countryside wake up

I search through on Airbnb for one I like and then find it privately, normally save a good amount of money

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Extension_Willow_966@reddit

South Devon is pretty gorgeous in the sun. Also wales

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JamOverCream@reddit

Agree with both. The South Hams is my favourite place in the world. Wales is also seriously underappreciated.

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TangyZizz@reddit

I’ve travelled around most of the UK coastline on a Pierquest (visiting every seaside pier still standing, and a few that were mostly rubble) and it really depends on what you want from your trip.

The most naturally beautiful areas I have experienced are Devon & Cornwall (south coast, no piers to visit on the north side) Argyll & Bute (not conveniently located for the majority of U.K. residents but incredibly beautiful) and North Wales, from Bangor to Beaumaris.

The latter was a bit of a revelation as I had rather unfairly categorised north Wales as a place to spend a wet weekend in a leaky caravan playing bingo with your nanna and betting on rain drops falling down the windscreen.

It’s actually an awe inspiring landscape that makes you feel like a tiny inconsequential speck and the conquering hero of your own journey all at once.

I’ve not much experience of the middle of the island, mind you.

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PaleozoicQueen@reddit

A staycation is when you stay at home.

Wales is always stunning!

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llnec@reddit

cumbria, keswick or Windemere, or anywhere in the lake district. lovely place, everywhere is dog friendly. sitting by a lake in the sunshine is my heaven

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Lion-Resident@reddit

Home

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DECKTHEBALLZ@reddit

Kennels exist..

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insertitherenow@reddit

Storrs Hall on the banks of Windermere. Fabulous hotel and beautiful scenery and walks.

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Haunting_Hour_4556@reddit

We recently did a Norfolk/Suffolk weekend. A great mix of scenery, lots to do, and we're planning on going back.

I think I prefer the Lake District, it's just an absolute pain to get to from where we live down south.

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OMITN@reddit

Home (obvs, and for the reasons others have said)

If you mean a holiday in the UK, then: Sandbanks on Dorset, Suffolk coast, Northumberland coast.

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AdPrestigious2387@reddit

My home.

If I went on holiday somewhere in the UK I would be going on holiday somewhere in the UK, not staying where I live.

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